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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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\"UAE<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6692,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:40:26","post_content":"\n

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Die lange Welle des Br\u00fcsseler Bestechungsskandals f\u00fcllt nach wie vor die Zeitungsseiten - und das ist gut so, denn so hat die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung endlich Zugang zu einer undurchsichtigen und gef\u00e4hrlichen Galaxie wie der des diplomatischen Lobbyismus, der in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Haltung der EU in vielen internationalen Fragen ver\u00e4ndert hat, und zwar in eine Richtung, die der der EU-L\u00e4nder und unserer pazifistischen Haltung in planetarischen Krisen entgegengesetzt ist. Ebenso hat der Lobbyismus viele Initiativen sabotiert, deren Ziel die \u00f6kologische Rettung des Planeten ist. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Helden des Lobbyismus vorzustellen: die Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten, die dank des Geldes, das sie ausgeben k\u00f6nnen, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Beeinflussung der europ\u00e4ischen Politik spielen - und Anwar Mohammed Gargash ist sicherlich einer der wichtigsten von ihnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehr noch: Anwar Gargash ist seit Jahren ein zentrales Element im Mechanismus der Einflussnahme der VAE auf die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union - ein komplexer Mechanismus, der auf der Beteiligung ehemaliger EU-Diplomaten in den Vorst\u00e4nden von Organisationen beruht, die die emiratische Au\u00dfenpolitik und ihre strategischen Beziehungen f\u00f6rdern - allesamt f\u00fcrstlich bezahlte Positionen. Die \"Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy\" (AGDA) ist eine Schule f\u00fcr internationale Diplomatie und ein von der Regierung von Abu Dhabi finanzierter Think-Tank, der (bis Februar 2022) von Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, dem ehemaligen Sonderbeauftragten der Europ\u00e4ischen Union f\u00fcr den s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraum, dem ehemaligen UN-Sondergesandten f\u00fcr Libyen, dem Generalsekret\u00e4r des spanischen Premierministers und dem Staatssekret\u00e4r f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten, geleitet wird[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n wurde 2015 mit einem Gehalt von 35.000 Pfund und einem Wohngeld von rund 130.000 Pfund zur \u00dcbernahme des Amtes \u00fcberredet. Ein Preis, der Gold wert ist, denn Le\u00f3n nimmt den Posten von einem Land an, das eine Fraktion der Konfliktparteien im libyschen B\u00fcrgerkrieg unterst\u00fctzt, den seine UN-Mission zu beenden versucht[2]<\/a>. Er wurde durch Nickolay Mladenov ersetzt[3]<\/a>, der Sonderkoordinator f\u00fcr den Friedensprozess im Nahen Osten und pers\u00f6nlicher Vertreter von Ban Ki-moon bei der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und der Pal\u00e4stinensischen Autonomiebeh\u00f6rde sowie UN-Sonderbeauftragter f\u00fcr den Irak und Leiter der Hilfsmission der Vereinten Nationen f\u00fcr den Irak (UNAMI) war[4]<\/a>: ein weiterer einflussreicher Diplomat, der die Seiten komplett wechselt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, neue Generationen von Diplomaten und Regierungschefs auszubilden und das Ministerium f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate (MoFAIC) zu unterst\u00fctzen[5]<\/a>. Das bedeutet, dass AGDA ausl\u00e4ndische Diplomaten ausbilden will, die der politischen Linie der Emirate folgen: im Vorstand sitzt der Franzose Jean-David Levitte, diplomatischer Berater der Pr\u00e4sidenten Chirac und Sarkozy, Botschafter Frankreichs in den Vereinigten Staaten und st\u00e4ndiger Vertreter Frankreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen[6]<\/a>. Und die Linie, so Gargash, ist ein milit\u00e4rischer Angriff auf den Iran[7]<\/a>, koordiniert mit den F\u00fchrern einer anderen Denkfabrik, dem Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash ist ein Schl\u00fcsselelement in der Strategie der US-Beteiligung am Angriff auf Katar in der zweiten H\u00e4lfte der 1910er Jahre, der von Saudi-Arabien, den Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und \u00c4gypten durchgef\u00fchrt wurde, da er mit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trumps Wahlkampfmanagerin und seiner politischen Beraterin, der Autorin einer Desinformationskampagne, die darauf abzielte, die Clintons zu diskreditieren und Trump dazu zu bringen, das gegen Katar verh\u00e4ngte Embargo zu unterst\u00fctzen, befreundet ist[10]<\/a>. Als die Machenschaften von Conway und anderen Trump-Beratern (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), die mit Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto F\u00fchrer der Emirate seit 2014, seit Juni 2022 offiziell Pr\u00e4sident[11]<\/a> - Gesch\u00e4fte machen, scheitern, muss Gargash in aller Eile jegliche Beteiligung der Emirate an der Bildung einer Druckgruppe auf Trump abstreiten, um ihn zu einer harten Linie gegen Katar zu bewegen[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor er sich als Politiker und Lobbyist etablierte, machte sich Gargash als Unternehmer einen Namen: Bis 2019 ist er Chef von Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Autoh\u00e4ndler des Landes[13]<\/a>, Importeur der renommiertesten Marken[14]<\/a> und Exklusivh\u00e4ndler von GAC Motor (Chinas gr\u00f6\u00dftem Autohersteller)[15]<\/a>. Seit Mai 2019 ist Gargash Enterprises an der Bildung des Konsortiums der Car Dealers Business Group beteiligt, das unter der Schirmherrschaft der Handelskammer von Dubai gegr\u00fcndet wurde[16]<\/a>. Eine Position, in der sie sich f\u00fcr die kommerzielle Entwicklung der chinesischen Autoindustrie in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union einsetzt[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN-Diplomat in Libyen, der f\u00fcr ein f\u00fcrstliches Bargeldangebot aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten die Seiten wechselte[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Dezember 2022 unterzeichnete die Anwar-Gargash-Akademie eine Absichtserkl\u00e4rung mit der Raumfahrtbeh\u00f6rde der VAE mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Programme und Synergien zu entwickeln und Seminare zu veranstalten, zu denen internationale Referenten eingeladen werden[19]<\/a>, um das Ansehen und den Einfluss der Akademie zu erh\u00f6hen und das (auch f\u00fcr milit\u00e4rische Zwecke n\u00fctzliche) technologische Wissen f\u00fcr Gargashs Gefolge zu erweitern. Offiziell trat er 2006 als Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten in die Politik ein, im Februar 2008 wurde er zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und zum Staatsminister f\u00fcr Nationalratsangelegenheiten ernannt. Im Februar 2016 wurde er erneut Staatsminister f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein politisches Wirken entfaltet sich haupts\u00e4chlich innerhalb des Ministeriums f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der VAE, das seit 2006 von Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan geleitet wird[21]<\/a>. Nach der Regierungsumbildung 2016 wurde Gargash zum Gesicht der humanit\u00e4r-milit\u00e4rischen Kampagne der Emirate im Jemen: 2015 als Projekt zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Bev\u00f6lkerung der von zwei Wirbelst\u00fcrmen heimgesuchten Insel Sokotra gestartet, ver\u00e4nderte die emiratische Pr\u00e4senz auf der Insel bald das Gesicht der Bev\u00f6lkerungszentren und zeigte vor allem ihre wahren Absichten[22]<\/a>: Im Jahr 2017 wurde der Bau eines Milit\u00e4rst\u00fctzpunkts f\u00fcr f\u00fcnftausend Soldaten fertiggestellt, was zu einer milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung f\u00fchrte, die erst Mitte 2018 unter heftigen lokalen Protesten beendet wurde, als die Soldaten aus Abu Dhabi durch ihre saudischen Kollegen ersetzt wurden, die ebenfalls an der Seite der separatistischen STC-Bewegung (Southern Transitional Council) t\u00e4tig waren[23]<\/a>. Koordinator dieser Initiative ist Anwar Gargash, die zur Eingliederung der f\u00fcr die Region strategisch wichtigen Insel in den emiratischen Einflussbereich f\u00fchrt[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash wird im Februar 2021 aus dem Amt des Staatsministers f\u00fcr ausw\u00e4rtige Angelegenheiten entfernt und wird diplomatischer Berater von Pr\u00e4sident Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, eine Position, die ihm einen direkten Draht nach Washington erm\u00f6glicht: Einer der Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in der Jemen-Frage sind die Beziehungen zwischen Abu Dhabi und Gargash und dem damaligen Pr\u00e4sidenten Donald Trump. Die Emirate begr\u00fc\u00dfen die feste Absicht Trumps, die US-Milit\u00e4rintervention im Jemen-Konflikt fortzusetzen und ein Veto gegen eine gegenteilige Resolution im Kongress einzulegen[26]<\/a>. Auf regionaler Ebene spielt die N\u00e4he zu Trump eine wichtige Rolle bei Gargashs Engagement f\u00fcr die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu Israel, die 2020 mit der Unterzeichnung des Abraham-Abkommens ihren H\u00f6hepunkt findet: In Washington unterzeichnen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Vereinigten Staaten, Israels und der Arabischen Emirate das Dokument, das f\u00fcr die beiden L\u00e4nder des Nahen Ostens die gegenseitige Anerkennung besiegelt[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damit hat Abu Dhabi gr\u00fcnes Licht von der m\u00e4chtigen Lobby des American Israel Public Affairs Committee[28]<\/a> f\u00fcr den Verkauf von US-Waffen an die Emirate, die im Dezember 2020 f\u00fcnfzig F-35-Kampfjets, Drohnen und Kleinwaffen f\u00fcr 23 Milliarden Dollar kaufen werden[29]<\/a>. Der komplexe Weg, der zur Unterzeichnung der Abkommen f\u00fchrte[30]<\/a>, beschreibt die krampfhafte Suche der Emirate nach Unterst\u00fctzung durch die USA, wobei sie in Trump einen wohlgesonnenen und manipulierbaren Partner sahen[31]<\/a>, wie die Versuche, den Ausgang der Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswahlen 2016 zu beeinflussen, zeigen - ein Umstand, der von Gargash bestritten, aber durch die peinlichen Beziehungen zu Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy und George Nader best\u00e4tigt wird[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durch den Ukraine-Konflikt verbessert sich die Position der Emirate, die die Europ\u00e4ische Union direkt in die Arme der L\u00e4nder am Persischen Golf treibt: Auf der Suche nach Partnern, die Russland in der Rolle des Kohlenwasserstofflieferanten ersetzen k\u00f6nnen, wendet sich Br\u00fcssel an Abu Dhabi und Doha. Im Dezember 2022 fordert Gargash ein st\u00e4rkeres europ\u00e4isches Engagement im Nahen Osten und in Zentralasien, wobei er blo\u00dfe Lieferanfragen als egoistisch bezeichnet (wie das zwischen Deutschland und Katar geschlossene Abkommen zeigt: 2 Millionen Tonnen Gas pro Jahr f\u00fcr Deutschland f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 15 Jahre[33]<\/a>) und fordert, dass Verpflichtungserkl\u00e4rungen in eine tats\u00e4chliche bilaterale Zusammenarbeit umgewandelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17. November 2021: Gargash empf\u00e4ngt Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sein Ziel ist ein Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsabkommen angesichts wiederkehrender iranischer Bedrohungen[35]<\/a> zu einer Zeit, in der die Regierung Biden einen umfassenden R\u00fcckzug vorschl\u00e4gt[36]<\/a>. Im Jemen-Konflikt stehen sich Teheran und Abu Dhabi seit Jahren unvers\u00f6hnlich gegen\u00fcber[37]<\/a>. Israel liefert auch Waffen an die Emirate in einem anti-iranischen Schl\u00fcssel[38]<\/a>. W\u00e4hrend sich die Europ\u00e4ische Union bisher neutral verhalten hat, sogar im Rahmen des Versuchs, die israelische politische Linie gegen\u00fcber Pal\u00e4stina aufzuweichen, beginnt die Lobbyarbeit von Gargash bei Mitgliedern des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments und vielen einflussreichen europ\u00e4ischen Politikern angesichts der neuen Situation auf dem Energiemarkt Fr\u00fcchte zu tragen[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Iran-Frage ist einer der zentralen Aspekte von Gargashs politischer Arbeit: Im November 2021 empf\u00e4ngt er der Pr\u00e4sidentenberater Enrique Mora, stellvertretender Generalsekret\u00e4r und politischer Direktor des Europ\u00e4ischen Ausw\u00e4rtigen Dienstes (EAD) und EU-Chefunterh\u00e4ndler f\u00fcr das iranische Nuklearabkommen (offiziell als \"Gemeinsamer Umfassender Aktionsplan\" bezeichnet[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi, um den Stand des Teheraner Atomprogramms und die europ\u00e4ischen Bem\u00fchungen um die Aufrechterhaltung des Gleichgewichts und der Stabilit\u00e4t im Nahen Osten zu besprechen[41]<\/a>. Nach und nach schlie\u00dfen sich einige wichtige europ\u00e4ische Agenturen der neuen diplomatischen Linie an, allen voran die EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) ist ein in Br\u00fcssel ans\u00e4ssiges Institut f\u00fcr politische Studien, das mit dem Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) der Europ\u00e4ischen Kommission zusammenarbeitet[42]<\/a>. Die Positionen der EFD stimmen mit den emiratischen Ansichten zur Au\u00dfenpolitik, zum religi\u00f6sen Fundamentalismus und zur iranischen Frage \u00fcberein; die Stiftung unterh\u00e4lt enge Beziehungen[43]<\/a> zur rechtsextremen britischen Denkfabrik [44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> und zur Quilliam Foundation, deren Gr\u00fcnder, Maajid Nawaz, den Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien von Q-Anon nahe stehen soll[46]<\/a>. Die EFD st\u00fcnde auch in enger Verbindung mit der Netanjahu nahestehenden US-amerikanischen neokonservativen Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), von der sie erhebliche Mittel erh\u00e4lt[47]<\/a>. Die VAE arbeiten seit langem mit der FDD zusammen[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino ist ein ehemaliger leitender politischer Berater der EFD[49]<\/a> und leitet jetzt das Programm f\u00fcr Extremismus an der George Washington University[50]<\/a> (wo Anwar Gargash seinen Abschluss in Politikwissenschaften gemacht hat[51]<\/a>). Hier erstellt Vidino politisches Beratungsmaterial f\u00fcr die US-Regierung zur Bek\u00e4mpfung extremistischer Gruppen und islamischer politischer Parteien, einschlie\u00dflich der Muslimbruderschaft. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird Vidino 2017 vom Au\u00dfenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah Bin Zayed, empfangen[52]<\/a>. Die Emirate wollen die akademische Kulturproduktion nutzen, um die Sichtweise des fundamentalistischen Islamismus und des politischen Islams in den Vereinigten Staaten zu beeinflussen[53]<\/a>, eine Strategie, bei der Vidino eine wichtige Rolle spielt[54]<\/a>: 2015 lud Quiller Consultants - seit Jahren vom emiratischen Au\u00dfenministerium finanziert - Vidino zu einer Reihe von Treffen hinter verschlossenen T\u00fcren mit Anwar Gargash ein[55]<\/a>, die organisiert wurden, um Journalisten und Akademiker dazu zu bringen, gegen die Muslimbruderschaft, gegen Katar, gegen den Iran zu wettern[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So viele Namen, die sich kreuzen, aber nur eines bedeuten: Die VAE und andere reiche L\u00e4nder sind in der Lage, unsere Entscheidungen in sozialen, politischen, kommerziellen, wirtschaftlichen, diplomatischen und milit\u00e4rischen Angelegenheiten entscheidend zu beeinflussen. Der undurchsichtige Lobbyismus, der in Br\u00fcssel und anderen europ\u00e4ischen Hauptst\u00e4dten herrscht, hat es im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschafft, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Europ\u00e4ische Union zu einer \u00c4nderung ihrer Politik zu bewegen: ein Erfolg, der durch die Vergabe von Geschenken und Ernennungen an bestimmte Schl\u00fcsselfiguren erreicht wurde - meist Beamte, die nicht vom Volk gew\u00e4hlt, sondern von einem kolossalen Verwaltungsapparat ernannt wurden, der naturgem\u00e4\u00df Korruption und Interessenkonflikte verdeckt. Wir glauben fest an die Union der Europ\u00e4er und fordern ein Ende dieser Schande sowie klare und effiziente Regeln. F\u00fcr alle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: der Mann der Milit\u00e4rb\u00fcndnisse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-der-mann-der-militaerbuendnisse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6692","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6686,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:38:15","post_content":"\n

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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers - and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU's stance on many international issues in recent decades, and has done so in a direction opposite to that of the EU countries and our pacifist attitude in planetary crises. Likewise, lobbying has also sabotaged many initiatives whose goal is the ecological salvation of the planet. In this context, it is crucial to present the heroes of lobbying: the figures who, thanks to the money they can spend, play a decisive role in influencing European politics - and Anwar Mohammed Gargash is certainly one of the most important among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What's more: Anwar Gargash has for years been a central element in the mechanism of influence exercised by the UAE on the United States and the European Union - a complex mechanism that relies on the involvement of former EU diplomats on the boards of organisations that promote Emirati foreign policy and its strategic relations - all positions paid for princely. Its 'Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy' (AGDA) is a school of international diplomacy and a think-tank funded by the Abu Dhabi government, headed (until February 2022) by Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, former Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean for the European Union, former UN Special Envoy to Libya, Secretary General to the Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le\u00f3n was persuaded to take up the role in 2015 by a salary of \u00a335,000, plus a housing allowance of around \u00a3130,000. A price worth its weight in gold, because Le\u00f3n accepts the post from a country that supports a faction of the contenders in the Libyan civil war that its UN mission is trying to stop[2]<\/a>. He was replaced by Nickolay Mladenov[3]<\/a>, who was Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Ban Ki-moon's personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, as well as being UN Special Representative for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)[4]<\/a>: another influential diplomat who changes sides completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGDA's aim is to train new generations of diplomats and heads of government and to support the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC)[5]<\/a>: by this is meant that AGDA wants to train foreign diplomats to follow the political line of the Emirates : on its board of directors sits Frenchman Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, Ambassador of France to the United States and France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations[6]<\/a>. And the line, according to Gargash, is a military attack on Iran[7]<\/a>, coordinated with the leaders of another think tank, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in Washington[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is a pivotal element in the strategy of US involvement in the attack on Qatar in the second half of the 1910s, carried out by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, as he is on friendly terms with Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway[9]<\/a>, Donald Trump's campaign manager and his political advisor, author of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Clintons and leading Trump to support the embargo imposed on Qatar[10]<\/a>. When the machinations of Conway and other Trump advisers (Elliott Broidy, George Nader), in business with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan - de facto leader of the Emirates since 2014, since June 2022 officially President[11]<\/a> - fail, Gargash has to hurry to deny any Emirati involvement in setting up a pressure group on Trump to get him to support the hard line against Qatar[12]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being a politician and lobbyist, Gargash established himself as an entrepreneur: until 2019 he is the head of Gargash Enterprises Llc Dubai, the country's largest company in the car sales sector[13]<\/a>, importer of the most prestigious brands[14]<\/a> and exclusive distributor of GAC Motor (China's largest car manufacturer)[15]<\/a>. Since May 2019, Gargash Enterprises has participated in the formation of the consortium of Car Dealers Business Group, established under the auspices of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce[16]<\/a>. A position in which it advocates for the commercial development of the Chinese car industry in the European Union[17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernardino Le\u00f3n Gross, UN diplomat in Libya, who switched sides for a princely cash offer from the United Arab Emirates[18]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, the Anwar Gargash Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency with the aim of developing joint programmes, synergies, and organising seminars to which international speakers would be invited[19]<\/a>, increasing the Academy's prestige and capacity for influence, as well as knowledge in the field of technology (also useful for military purposes) for the Gargash entourage. He officially entered politics in 2006 as Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, in February 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for National Council Affairs. In February 2016 he was again Minister of State for Foreign Affairs[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His political action is mainly developed within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, headed since 2006 by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan[21]<\/a>. After the 2016 government reshuffle, Gargash became the face of the Emirates' humanitarian-military campaign in Yemen: started in 2015 as a project to assist the population of the island of Socotra, hit by two cyclones, the Emirati presence on the island soon transformed the face of the population centres and, above all, showed its true intentions[22]<\/a>: In 2017, the construction of a military base capable of housing five thousand soldiers was completed, giving rise to a military occupation that ended, amidst vibrant local protests, only in mid-2018, when the Abu Dhabi soldiers were replaced by their Saudi counterparts, who were also engaged alongside the separatist STC (Southern Transitional Council) movement[23]<\/a>. Coordinator of this initiative is Anwar Gargash, which leads to the annexation of the island, strategically important for the area, under the Emirati sphere of influence[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gargash is removed from the post of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in February 2021, becoming Diplomatic Advisor to President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[25]<\/a>, since this position allows him to have a direct channel with Washington: one of the key factors in the Yemen issue is the ties that Abu Dhabi and Gargash have with then-President Donald Trump - they welcome Trump's firm intention to continue the US military intervention in the Yemen conflict, vetoing a resolution of contrary opinion from Congress[26]<\/a>. On the regional front, proximity to Trump plays an important role in Gargash's efforts to help normalise relations with Israel, in a process that culminates in 2020, with the signing of the Abrahamic Accords: in Washington, the leaders of the United States, Israel and the Arab Emirates sign the document that seals mutual recognition for the two Middle Eastern countries[27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives Abu Dhabi the green light, from the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby[28]<\/a>, to sell arms to the Emirates, which in December 2020 will buy fifty F-35 jets, drones and light weapons for USD 23 billion[29]<\/a>. The complex path leading to the signing of the Agreements[30]<\/a> describes the Emirati spasmodic search for US support, identifying in Trump a well-disposed and manipulable partner[31]<\/a>, as shown by the attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a circumstance denied by Gargash but confirmed by the embarrassing relations with Kellyanne Conway, Elliott Broidy and George Nader[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, due to the Ukrainian conflict, the position of the Emirates improved, as it pushed the European Union directly into the arms of the Persian Gulf countries: looking for partners able to replace Russia in the role of hydrocarbon suppliers, Brussels turned to Abu Dhabi and Doha. In December 2022, Gargash calls for a greater European commitment in the Middle East and Central Asia, branding mere supply requests as selfish (as indicated by the agreement concluded between Germany and Qatar: 2 million tonnes of gas per year to Germany for the next 15 years[33]<\/a>) and demanding that declarations of commitment be transformed into actual bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 November 2021: Gargash receives Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service[34]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its goal is an agreement on defence and security, in the face of recurring Iranian threats[35]<\/a>, at a time when the Biden administration is proposing a substantial disengagement[36]<\/a>. On opposite sides in the Yemeni conflict, Tehran and Abu Dhabi have been at loggerheads for years[37]<\/a>. Israel is also supplying arms to the Emirates in an anti-Iranian key[38]<\/a>. While the European Union has so far remained neutral, even as part of the attempt to soften the Israeli political line with regard to Palestine, in the face of the new situation on the energy market, the lobbying work exerted by Gargash on members of the European Parliament and many influential European politicians is beginning to bear fruit[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian issue is one of the central aspects of Gargash's political work: in November 2021, the President's advisor receives Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general and political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and chief EU negotiator of the Iranian nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action[40]<\/a>), in Abu Dhabi to discuss the status of Tehran's nuclear programme and European efforts to maintain balance and stability in the Middle East area[41]<\/a>. One by one, some important European agencies are joining the new diplomatic line, first and foremost the EFD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) is a Brussels-based institute for policy studies that collaborates with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)[42]<\/a>. The EFD's positions are aligned with the Emirati view on foreign policy, religious fundamentalism and the Iranian question; the foundation has strong ties[43]<\/a> with the far-right British think-tank[44]<\/a> Henry Jackson Society[45]<\/a> and the Quilliam Foundation, one of whose founders, Maajid Nawaz, is said to be close to Q-Anon's conspiracy theories[46]<\/a>. The EFD would also have close ties with the US neocon Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) close to Netanyahu, from which it receives substantial funding[47]<\/a>. The UAE has long collaborated with the FDD[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino is a former senior policy advisor at the EFD[49]<\/a> and now runs the Program on Extremism at George Washington University[50]<\/a> (where Anwar Gargash graduated in Political Science[51]<\/a>). Here Vidino produces policy advisory material for the US government on combating extremist groups and Islamic political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this work, Vidino is received in 2017 by the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed[52]<\/a>. The Emirates want to use academic cultural production to influence the view of fundamentalist Islamism and political Islam in the United States[53]<\/a>, a strategy in which Vidino plays an important role[54]<\/a>: in 2015, Quiller Consultants - for years financed by the Emirati Foreign Ministry - invited Vidino[55]<\/a> to a series of closed-door meetings with Anwar Gargash, organised to push journalists and academics to lash out against the Muslim Brotherhood, against Qatar, against Iran[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many names that cross each other's paths, but which mean only one thing: the UAE, as well as other rich countries, are able to decisively influence our decisions in social, political, commercial, economic, diplomatic and military matters. The opaque lobbying that reigns in Brussels and other European capitals has, over the past quarter century, succeeded in getting the United States and the European Union to change policy: an achievement achieved by bestowing gifts and appointments on certain key figures - mostly officials not elected by the people, but appointed by a colossal administrative machine that, by its very nature, conceals corruption and conflict of interest. We strongly believe in the union of Europeans, and we clamour for an end to this disgrace, and for clear and efficient rules. For everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/bernardino-leon-gross\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/04\/un-libya-envoy-accepts-1000-a-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/agda-management<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/med.ispionline.it\/speaker\/nickolay-mladenov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agda.ac.ae\/about-agda\/board-of-trustees\/details\/h.e.-jean-david-levitte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2022\/07\/15\/uae-may-send-envoy-to-iran-dr-anwar-gargash-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.uae-embassy.org\/news\/uae-based-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy-and-johns-hopkins-university-school-advanced<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a> ; LA PHILIP MORRIS VA ALLA GUERRA \u2013 ALLEATA A SUPREMATISTI, POPULISTI E SCEICCHI ARABI | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/if-abu-dhabi-believes-to-guide-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/magazine\/atlante\/geopolitica\/Ritratto_Mohammed_Zayed.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/397184-uae-made-no-effort-to-influence-us-election-anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/company\/0323611D:UH<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/gargashauto.ae\/brands\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/c\/gargash-enterprises\/400309916<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Gargash Enterprises LLC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/uae.yallamotor.com\/car-news\/dubai-car-dealers-business-group-elects-executive-committee-again-for-second-term-7725<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/business\/retail-and-consumer\/chinese-cars-bad-reputation-for-poor-quality-is-undeserved-gargash-ceo-ma4rcfdk<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.gac-motor.com\/en\/media\/newsdetail\/id\/216.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.elespanol.com\/espana\/20151106\/77242276_0.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/uae-space-agency-signs-mou-with-anwar-gargash-diplomatic-academy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-excellency-dr-anwar-bin-mohammed-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/uaecabinet.ae\/en\/details\/cabinet-members\/his-highness-sheikh-abdullah-bin-zayed-al-nahyan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> SOCOTRA, L\u2019ULTIMA MERAVIGLIOSA ISOLA INCANTATA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/en\/socotra-the-last-wonderful-enchanted-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.avvenire.it\/opinioni\/pagine\/il-paradiso-dello-yemen-conteso-da-emirati-e-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uae-anwar-gargash-removed-foreign-affairs-minister-state<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/mena\/anwar-gargash-says-donald-trump-s-yemen-veto-is-positive-signal-of-us-support-for-allies-1.849902<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?cycle=2018&id=D000046963<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/exclusive-biden-administration-proceeding-with-23-billion-weapon-sales-uae-2021-04-13\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/aipac-when-israel-lobbies-for-the-arabs-652346<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-israel-emirates-idINKBN1E30AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-election-uae-idUSKCN1IN2RN<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/uae-denies-trying-to-meddle-in-2016-us-election\/4405574.html<\/a> ; SE ABU DHABI PENSA DI \u201cPILOTARE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-to-strike-uae-in-case-of-us-attack-mee\/2063005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/atalayar.com\/en\/content\/emirates-calls-greater-european-engagement-gulf-we-need-see-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/commodityinsights\/en\/market-insights\/latest-news\/oil\/100322-yemens-iranian-backed-houthis-threaten-oil-companies-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202210293220<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71-72<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302994277<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/publication\/a-guide-to-refuting-jihadism-critiquing-radical-islamist-claims-to-theological-authenticity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cage.ngo\/revealed-home-office-outsourcing-surveillance-to-far-right-henry-jackson-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/about-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/4\/20\/the-quilliam-foundation-has-closed-but-its-toxic-legacy-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/powerbase.info\/images\/0\/06\/PII_IsraelLobbyEUreport2016_Cronin_Mursak_Miller.pdf<\/a> ; http:\/\/990s.foundationcenter.org\/990_pdf_archive\/262\/262148044\/262148044_201612_990.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/thecordobafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Spinwatch-UAE_lobby_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ispionline.it\/en\/node\/10162<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/people\/anwar-gargash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/ednews.net\/en\/news\/world\/211333-uae-tried-to-influence-trump-administration-to-designate-musl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> LA PENNA CHE UCCIDE PI\u00d9 DELLA SPADA | IBI World Italia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.glistatigenerali.com\/geopolitica_questione-islamica\/la-penna-che-uccide-piu-della-spada\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> http:\/\/www.citizens-international.org\/ci2017\/2015\/10\/19\/uae-paid-pr-firm-millions-to-brief-uk-journalists-on-qatar-brotherhood-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Anwar Gargash: the man of military alliances","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anwar-gargash-the-man-of-military-alliances","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6686","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":65},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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